The Chess Variants Club

The Chess Variants Club

Console: PC
TV Standard: Other
Release Date: 2020-12-15
Players: 2
Co-op: No
ESRB: E - Everyone
Type: Puzzle

Choose the chess variant you'd like to play sorted by piece sets
... or sorted by board size

Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package.

This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles that will entertain you and your friends for thousands of hours. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.
Here is the list of Chess Variants currently available (more to come soon):

Demi-Chess;
Dunsany's Chess;
Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess);
Los Alamos Chess;
Atomic Chess;
Silverman Chess;
Microchess;
Diana chess;
Circe Chess;
Dunsany's Chess;
3-Checks Chess;
Knight Supreme Chess;
The Pawns Game;
Aleut Chess.

Key Features:
Play against the computer or with your friends (local multiplayer or Remote Play Together);
Originally composed soundtrack to help you relax and concentrate;
12 Chess Variants to learn and play (more to be added soon!);
More than 400 chess puzzles to solve (Classical Chess, Atomic Chess, 3-Checks Chess, Micro-Chess, Demi-Chess, Diana Chess, Circe Chess, and more to come soon);
Hundreds of chess puzzles available

Play a chess match remotely with a friend, with Remote Play Together.
Invite your friend to play with you. He/she doesn't need to have a Steam account - see here;
The remote player can use the shared mouse, the shared keyboard, or a gamepad (it currently works for a limited set of controller models).
The input devices to be shared are defined by the player who made the invitation and is running the game;
The definition of which input device will be used by which player is made at the start of each match.